Tips: Dessert and Baking Tips

• When measuring sticky ingredients, like honey or peanut butter or marshmallow cream, lightly coat the measuring cups with vegetable oil first and the ingredients will slip right out. FabulousFoods.com ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• Here's a fun way to let the kids paint their own cookies. Make cookie paint by mixing food coloring with egg yolks. Let the kids paint pictures on the cookie, before baking. After baking, the colors will come out bright and glossy. FabulousFoods.com ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• Before placing double crusted pies in the oven, loosely wrap aluminum foil around pie crust edges. This will help the edges from browning too quickly. Remember to remove the aluminum about 10 minutes before pies are ready to come out of the oven so the crust is properly browned. Mary McLuckie, Redding, CA ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• Has your brown sugar hardened? Place your box of brown sugar in a zip lock bag. Place a small piece of bread inside the ziplock bag but outside of the box. Seal and let sit a short while (at least overnight). Use the softened sugar as needed. Replace the dried out bread (it dries as it remoistens the sugar) with a fresh piece as needed. FabulousFoods.com ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• To bring butter or margarine to room temperature quickly, use a grater to shred it into your mixing bowl. FabulousFoods.com ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• Cookies made with corn oil or corn oil margarine are softer than cookies made with butter or other types of margarines. FabulousFoods.com ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• Prevent dried fruit or nuts from sinking to the bottom of your batters by coating them lightly with flour first. FabulousFoods.com ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• To get the last bit of shortening from the can, fill with boiling water and let cool. The shortening will rise to the top and harden, when it can be easily removed. FabulousFoods.com ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• To remove the skins from hazelnuts or filberts, toast them on a baking sheet at 325° F for about 20 minutes (don't over brown). Remove from oven and cover with a damp kitchen towel, then cover with another baking sheet. This allows the steam from the towel to help remove the skins from the nuts. To finish the job, take a handful of nuts at a time, and rub vigorously between the folds of a clean towel. FabulousFoods.com ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• Add half rhubard when making apple sauce.Good way to use up frozen rhubarb Cornwall Canada (Added: 25-Mar-2004)

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Tips: Dessert and Baking Tips

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